Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

claimed. the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe secures direct st. Louis and Chicago
line
FIRE at Chippewa Falls, Wis, on the
oath, destroyed the Chippewa Falls
.Voollen mills. Loss, s1l,50o; insurance,
$4,000. Later reports from the Haw-
thorne fire state that the fire at that pla<e
was not so bad as was reported. Only
few houses were burned.
81. C. ANDERSON, formerly of st. Louis,
was arrested at Kan sas City, Mo-, on the
2ith, just as he was in the act of entering
IL loaded Chicago & Alton car, the lock Of
which he had broken.
MAJOR E. S. DISsMoRE, who has been
one of the most familiar Il gures about the
White House at Washington for many
years, having been in attendance at the
front door for twelve years, has resigned
his position. He has accepted employ
ment with Mr.. George S. Simons, of Fitch
burg, Mass. one of the leading manufact-
urers of that State.
TIE Virginia Legislatu adjourned sine
die on the oath. Before doing so both
houses passed resolutions in opposition to
the pending Coercion bill in the Britlsh
Parliament, and rendering hearty appre-
citation to Messrs. Gladstone and Parnen
for their efforts in behalf of home rule for
Ireland.
SIR 'ALGE RNoN BoRTHwIcK, Conserva-
tive, mem Der of Parliament for Sout h
Kensington and proprietor of the London
Morning Post, in an address to his con-
stituents on the Gath, said that after the
Whitsun recess the Government proposed
to force the passage of the Irish Crime
Act Amendment bill within a specified
period, whether or not all the amend
ments to the bill were dis posed of.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HYATT
qualified on the oath and form ally as
sumed the duties of his new Office.
MAJOR BEN PERLEY PooRE was worse
on the 18th, and appeared to be
gradually sinking. His mind remained
perfectly clear whom aroused, but he
quickly relapsed into stupor.
JOHN MORLEY, in a speech at Norwich,
England. on the % tn bitterly assailed the
governments Irish policy.
| NUMEROUS invitations are reaching the
President to visit various places in the
West during his trip in the fall.
RUSSIA declines to acquiesce in the set
| Element of the Egyptian question by En-
gland and Turkey.
THE Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield
railroad was sold under foreclos ure at
| New York on the 25th.
| JAY GOULD and Russell Sage are to be
| sued by Kansas Pacific bondholders for
s., 600, 600.
| THE National and Missouri State con-
| ventions of millers opened in st. Louis on
| the 18th.
| IT is stated that the Canadian Govern
| ment and the Imperial Government pro-
| pose jointly to arrange for resurvey of
| the St. Lawrence river as far as Quebec
| JAY GOULD, Russell Sage, Frederick L.
Ames, John T. Terry and General E. T.
| Eckert were reelected directors of the
American Telegraph Gable Company at
| the annual meeting III New York on the
| 25th.
! THE British Hosiery Company at Thorn
| ton, R. L, which came over to get the ben
| eft of protection, is said to be in a shaky
| condition.
| RICHARD NIXON, correspondent of the
| New Orleans Times Democrat, was married
at Washington on the 18th to Miss Agnes
| Dolph, daughter of Senator Dolph, at the
| Epiphany Church, by Rev. DR.. Gelsy.
| LEADING cracker manufacturers of Chi
cago, ST. Louis Klnsas City, Council
Bluffs and Omaha assem- bled in convention
| at Omaha, Neb., on the 25th, to arrange d
| scale of wholesale prices and adopt regu-
| lations to govern the production.
JOHN THOMSON, a Hamilton (Ont.) boat
builder, his wife, Miss Vincent, his wife,
sister, and three children were drowned
on the night of the 24th while rowing on
the bay in a skiff. Mrs. Thomson's body
| was washed ashore the next morning.
Nothing has been heard of the other oc-
| cupants of the boat.
| CANON FLEMING admits the plagiarism
of part of one of Talmage's sermons, but
says it was done through mistake.
! A NATIVE reports that the Ameer of
Afghanistan announces determination to
take the field himself unless his generals
speedily queu the revolt of the Ghizais.
DURING a storm at Mcdonald, Pa, on
the night of the 25th, lightning struck a
French clearinghouse and instantly
killed two boar1ers, named Abel Arquin
and Fernand Pourbin, who were asleep in
bed on the third floor The fluid descend
ed to the second floor and seriously in
jured two children.
| GENERAL STEEDMAN's statue was deji-
Gated at Toledo, O., on the Goth.
| WILLIAM OBRIEN was received in the
New York Assembly chamber on the
Goth.
PREsI DENT CLEVELAND and party left
Washington on the 26th for the Adiron-
dacks.
The Hungarian Diet closed its session
on the Goth. Emperor Francis Joseph ad.
dressed the body.
A PLOT for the assassination OF the Sui
tan of Turkey is reported to have been
discovered.
GERMAN official circles are very gloomy
over the final report of DR.. Mckenzie or
the Crown Princes malady.
| TIE National Brewers convention con
cluded its work at Baltimore on the Goth
selected st. Paul, Mimi, for the next
meeting and adjourned.
| TIE number of lives lost at the Paris
Opera Comique fire is said to very largely
exceed that at first stated, some estimates
being as high as two hundred.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and party will
| ha entertained at Alhauv bv Governor
Hill on June 5.
CHIEF OF POLICE MCRAE of Winnipeg
Man, was fatally shot on the night of the
25th by Joe FAINT, a notorious cattle-thief
THE boiler of a portable mill belonging
to John Craft, located near Leisenring
Pa, exploded on the 18th, instantly kill
ing James Naylor and seriously injurine
the proprietor and a man named Alex
Work. Cause of explosion is not known
AT late hour on the night of the 26th
one of. three young men who were at
tempting to effect an entrance into tn
house of Chas. Peak, q wealthy dairymar
in the stomach, he having raised a win
dow to look into the yard. Peak is NOR
| tally wounded.
SENATOR JONES, of Arkansas, visited the
President on the 26th, and pressed tn,
claims of that State to the vacant seat OF
the supreme bench.
DR.. E. l.. MANSFIELD. one of the veal tn
lest and widest known citizens of Iowa
was found dead, sitting upright in hi
buggy, the lines in his hand, four mile
, out of Cedar Rapids, on the morning o
, the Goth. He was in apparent good health
,, when he left the city an hour earlier.
, THE Vedder Liquor Tax bill was passet
| by the New York Assembly on the Goth
| 1t now goes to the Governor who will un